St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-01-08
WOMEN IN GREAT DEMAND.
A Whole Territory of Bachelors in
Waiting.
What Feminine Pluck and Energy
Have Accomplished.
Fort Keogh Letter in New York Times.

and foothills of this vast territory are count
less farms, ranches and cabins, the tenants
and owners of which are lonely, forlorn
men who have plenty of soil and large bank
accounts to their several credits, and yet
none of them have the solid, substantial
comforts of home. One ancient individ-
ual in the town of Sadie. near here. is 70
years old. has tremendous herd or cattle
and S7O.0 600 in hard cash. and no
body to help him herd his stock Or
spend all that money. The bachelor homes
are of every style and description, and are
situated in all sorts of strange places. Some
are novels dug out in the hillSideS, some
are cabins of the rudeSt structure, some
log houses of only modest pretenSiOnS,
while there are others of Frame or stone,
or brick. The tenants are curious objects,
too. Some are surrounded with luxury
and ease. and others again are possessed OF
| the bare necessities of lie, but all are alike
i'll one reSDect-lOnelv and barren OF female
society. The tller of his thousand acres,
the grower of the golden fleece, the range
autocrat. with cattle upon thousand hills
or the bonanza mining king (the clank OF
whose machinery diSturbS his own dreams
as it FORCES his golden harvest)-all these
are never so happy as their less fortunate
brothers in the possession of few worldly
goods, but vet who have helpmeetS and
companions in the wives who have followed
them from the states to share their joys
and SORROWS.
There are no less than 80. 600 bachelors
in Montana. and every single one of them
is in need of and anxious to get a wife.
These entertaining young fellows and
would-be benedcts have no time to go
counting themselves, and so much of that
sort of thing is done by proxy. They are
| entirely too busy amaSSing fortunes, either
at sheep herding. cattle growing or mining.
in which at least 80 per cent. Of them are
bound to become milliOnalres sooner or
later There is the greatest possible need
in Montana for young girls and maidens,
old women and old maids too for that mat
ter, each and every one Of whom would fill
long felt want. Domestics are in high
demand. AS servant girls they can COM
mand wages here that would give them
completeness in a short time. with very little
offered in return. But the trouble with the
girls who cCme out this way looking for a
job is that none of them remain in service
for any length of time. They are soon
gobbled up by young fellows in search of a
WIFE
Speaking of our young men ''going
accounting" the following truthful illustra-
ton will serve to show how it is done in
Montana: About a year ago young and
wealthy beef baron of Forsyth, a small
canvas town few miles west of here "a
j. Kimball is his name). requested friend
! who was going East to nunt up a young
lady with whom he might correspond with
a view to matrimony. The friend interested
himself in Kimball's behalf and secured
Miss Maggie A. Rhodes, of Huntingdon,
Pa. as correspondent, and letters were
exchanged as we'll as photographs. After
years correspondence. and although Miss
Rhodes and Mr.. Kimball had never seen
each other, they agreed to marry, and KIM
ball sent Miss Rhodes money enough to
carry her to Bismarck, Oak, where he
promised to meet her. She left Hunting
don Oct. % last, arrived at Bismarck.
where kimball was waiting for her, and
the two came on to Miles City, where they
were married Oct 80 by Rev. NJ. Snyder. All
OF their counting had been done by letter.
The above is a novel and interesting case.
and is true in every particular. And yet all
the girls who come to this wide-awake coun-
try do not get married. Many of them would
not have man for love or money; and they
are right, too, for those very same independ-
ent young damsels soon learn to rustic for
themselves and before many days ind
of election. school teachers. sheep or Gait e
queens, and actually candidates for political
offices. All of these things have happened
right here in Montana. In nearly every
county at the last election young ladies were
running on the Republican. Democratic, or
Independent ticket for county superintend-
ents of schools; and in at least nine cases
out of ten whatever their political complex
ions. the girls We're voted in. At the last
election over at Spokane Falls two women
in each ward We're chosen to act as
judges of election. and in every instance
was the duty well performed and to the
credit of the sex. Yet the mixing up of
females with male jurors is not so pleasant
after all for all hands as it might be: still. in
our neghboring territory it seems to wark
very well. The last elections, all admit
were extremely orderly. the presence of
women at the polls tending to prevent
drunkenness and disorder.
A male grumbler charges them while on
jury duty with not following the evidence
closely, nor of properly approaching the re-
lations of facts to conclusions" Some
times pretty lady juror will fl TT with the
lawyers and thus disturb the traditional
dizziness of the court room. Then there IS
a class of casses in which the evidence is
unfit for refined women to listen to. In
convent enceS also arise from the difference
of sex. Female baiIiffs have to be ap.
pointed. 1t seems hardly cOnSiderate or
proper to lock } the women jurors in the
same room with the men, and keep them
there together over night to force an agree
ment on a verdict. Bat the law permits no
separation. To boil it down, all the ladies'
would like to be excused from jury duty if ii
would not affect their right to vote. Tie
words of Judge Vineyard, of Washington
Territory may be taken as fair sample of
the manner in which lady jurors are
garded in that territory by the solonS OF { e
! law. The grand jury venire being
hausted and the panel not filled. Judge w n
gard turned to Sheriff Thompson and o
dered that official Ito bring into court three
we'll tried and true citizens of Walla Wall
or Franklin county, and If you can't get
good and reliable men get good and relia-
bic women. | would much rather have
good woman on the jury than the average
juryman picked up on special venire. We
have been hampered with too many Scrubby
! jurymen."
Going from politics to farming. it is as,
tonishing what grit and endurance some of
these girls reared in the states can exhibit
when put to the test A Montana matron
OF so summers rode on horseback into Liv-
ingSton last week, did her trading and re-
turned to her ranch. riding fully 100 miles.
alone and unattended. The Winchester
that hung at her saddle showed that she
was prepared for defense if necessary. and
inquiry developed the fact that her name
was Puett, a pioneer of the Upper Yellow
stone and that she lives at the head of
SweetgrasS Creek. where she is wealthy
when at home, in horses, cattle and sheep
She is wldow, and has built up her own
home without assistance from ANYBODY,